Have Israelis Finally Learned the Strategic Value of Territory?

Submitted by Tess McNamara B.A. Women's Studies, B.A Family Studies, Student of Islam....(Australia) (Australia), Jan 3, 2009 at 04:38

On May 14, 1948 Jewish Authorities ,declared the establishment of the State of Israel.

Israel's area is 21,946 sq km (8,473 sq miles)

The Sinai Peninsula was returned to Egypt by 1982 under the 1979 Peace Agreement, and Palestinian self-rule took effect in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Jericho in May 1994, following a historic peace agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in September 1993. In September 2005, following Prime Minister Sharon's plans for disengagement from the region, Israeli settlers in the Gaza Strip were removed and Israeli settlements destroyed. reference: http://au.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761575008/Israel.html

It must be remembered of course that the areas given to the Jews in Israel, largely consisted of malarial swamps which the Jews using hard work and ingenuity, managed to drain and turn into prosperous fertile lands. At the time it was land that was unusable when it was given to the Jews by England. In fact, Israel Jews were promised 75 per cent more land than it received, due to the betrayal of the Jews by Britain under the Balfour Declaration, they did not receive what they had been promised. Arab Muslims received 99 per cent of all Arabian peninsular and Arabian lands. Indeed the land of Israel has been as a result of the Jews hard work and productivity and scientific minds.

Israeli P.M Golda Meir once said of the success of Israelis modernizing and productivity,

"I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
Golda Meir "
The Jews came with almost nothing to their name, to land no one wanted, full of desert and swamps, malaria and diseases and set about creating the wondrous advances we see today.

Arabs came into Israel on the promise of work and better living conditions than where they came from specifically Egypt and Syrian and Jordan areas. When Israel Sovereign nation was declared, the surrounding Arab nations declared war upon it, and the Arabs whom were in Israel were told to leave immediately or die as the Arabs such as Egypt's leaders (Nasser etc) declared that they would kill every single Jew whom remained in Israel.

Today, more than half the Jews in Israel were born there. Arabs are about 19 per cent of the population, and they enjoy far more freedom and rights than any Arab under neighboring countries rule. The right to worship is respected in Israel of Islamic and Christians. In neighboring lands no such rights exist in the same degree of freedom as enjoyed in Israel. Hebrew is the main language read and spoken in Israel, Arabic a second language.

The Arabs in the Gaza speak the Egyptian dialects and maintain close family ties with other Egyptian relatives. There is also many related to Jordan and Syrian country citizens and dwellers.

Egypt not only caused the situation unfolding in Gaza, it threatened to shoot and kill any whom left Gaza.

Despite the better efforts of British under their Mandate , and Europeans and Arabs who tried to kill them, post breakdown of the Ottoman Empire, the Jews whom were escaping the European and Arabic, Genocidal oppression and persecution of 2000 years, finally entered the spiritual and religious homeland of Eretz Israel. The Jews used to say every year at Hanukah, "Next Year Jerusalem". It was said apparently since 70 AD when the Israel of the Old testament was illegally invaded and the city sacked and all Jews forced to run for their lives and leave.

1948-Truly an act of God, Hashem the one true God of all Jews and Christians, had brought truly his Jewish chosen children home. This had been prophesied in The Old Testament for 2000 years. The true will of the one true God Hashem had been shown to all human kind.

After 2000 years of the Diaspora, of Genocidal Pogroms against them, the memories of the slaughtered Jews through Asia, Europe and England during various Church or religious or State Pogroms, the small number of post WW2 Jews survivors made it to their true spiritual homeland of Israel. The Jews must never forget these words of Cicero, my favorite Philosopher:

"Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "

It is a fact, that there were 800,000 refugees in 1947/1948 from Arab lands alone,whom had been thrown out of their own homes lands and businesses by greedy hateful Muslim leaders and with mostly just the clothes on their backs lucky to still be alive they some how made it to Israel, to sanctuary. The world stood by and continues to deny their rightful situation , they also deserve to be compensated for their eviction from Arab lands too. They are the forgotten true refugees.

In Iraq , many innocent Jews were strung up and hanged in the square, to convince other Jews to get out. In Jordan and Saudi Arabia, all Jews were forced to leave or die. Jews were forbidden to enter the countries or die.

Each Arabian land of Saudi Arabia ( which also was a created country by the British under the carve up of the Ottoman Empire of the same age roughly as Israel and the same "legitimacy") land now boasts that they are "Jude rein" or "Jew free".

A Jew may not enter either Saudi Arabia or Jordan on pain of death, yet the international and the United Nations, do not force this policy of state sanctioned anti Semitism to cease. What has the UN actually done to protect the Jews. Answer is simple- nothing. Why? Because it is now controlled by Anti Semitic Muslim Arabs now.

The sophisticated use of de legitimizing language, of Israel, by the propagandists of Islamic Arabs, is by stealth part of Jihad against all Jews everywhere, to ensure that Jews no longer have any state to be protected from murderous ideologies.

The push by the Arab Muslim countries using skilful propaganda and lies, of Taqqiyeh and slick manipulation of the media, to destroy the legitimacy of Israel by those same enemies of Israel, is sick and evil. None of the countries are older than Israel or more legitimate than Israel they all were lines drawn on a map post Ottoman Empire by the conquering countries of WW1. (Saudi Arabia and Trans Jordan was to be the Palestinian homeland of the Arab" Palestinian people").

These oil rich enemies in middle east, are trying to stop Israel, this beautiful oasis in the desert of Arabian sands, Israel is a shining light of Democracy and modernity, of humanity, the brightest of minds and ingenuity, and enlightenment of science and technology and positive human rights.

What the Arabs fear is that the ideas of Democracy and Religious Freedom, might spread and de- throne the so called Kings and Queens created by Britain, political leaders and despots of the Arabian peninsular, if the people ever understood how good the lives of the Arab Muslim who have citizenship in Israel actually are.

This is why Al Jazeera, and Saud Tv and Hamas Tv and other media constantly repeat so often the lies of the Russian secret police "Protocols of the elders of Zion" was a hoax and a fraud, yet promoted strongly as fact by Muslim Arabs, through Arabia.

The media terrify the people with false stories called Blood Libel against the Jews, they seek to de humanize the Jews, so that killing in the name of their religion or political groups or terrorists like Hamas is seen as ok. The media repeat lie after lie about the Jews with impunity.

"It is a true saying that "One falsehood leads easily to another".

Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "

Hysterical hate is whipped up daily against the beautiful Jewish people, to further the agenda of the Jihadists and the evil of the murderous terrorist extremist Islamists. While they hate the Jews and are fearful of the Jews, then the people do not look to their own governments and leaders and see the pitiful state which the lives of the people really live. The hate of all Jews is a weapon to distract all Muslim people from the misery and pitiful lives that they live.

The de humanization of the Jews by Arab media and liars and governments of the middle east,is sickening. It is said that Muhammad ordered that Jews be driven into the sea, and promised that the Jews would never have a statehood again. Woops, sorry, Muhammad was wrong, but the Israelis have had a strong wonderful country for the past 60 years and this is one main reason the Arab Muslims can't stand the existence of Israel , because their so called self proclaimed Prophet of Islam, Muhammad, said it would never happen, and while it exists it is poof he was wrong. If within the culture of Arabian Islam, there is no limits to the evil and physical harm which islamists can do to the Jews, how is then the culture to gain any moral insights or advancement?.

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

Hamas and Hezbollah, it is seen is funded by the greater evil of Iran, soon to be a nuclear power and serious threat to world peace. The Sunni led Saudis are also the main funders of terrorist groups in the world today. Whether they be Sunni or Shiites, they still see Israel as their enemy, the stop to their gaining world power. Lebanon is overtaken by Hezbollah, and the true words of Cicero speak loudly of the alliance of evil against Israel,"As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like." Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

In modernity, after 60 years of nationhood Israel now is facing increasing international calls for the de legitimizing of Israel despite it being recognized by the United Nations. The propaganda of the Muslim Arabs is astonishing in the lies which are being believed by the gullible, the uneducated, the naive, the haters. It was Jean Paul Sartre whom said eloquently, and I believe this applies to the self hating amongst the Jews :

"I hate victims who respect their executioners. "
Jean-Paul Sartre

The Jews whom do not live in Israel cannot possibly truly comprehend the sheer evil single minded determination of brain washed individuals whom in name of Islam will kill every last Jew amongst them regardless where they live, by the fact that they are raised to hate and kill by parents, teachers, clerics and governmental figures. These are the very least whom should have a voice in what happens in Israel if indeed they advocate that there should not BE an Israel ( some select elders in Iran's Jewish minority were shown once on TV saying that they are against the State of Israel).. Unless you live in Israel, what I mean by that, is the most powerful of voices must remain to the citizens of Jewish origins whom reside, and live in Israel , whom are subjected daily to the terror of the missiles and kassams directed to kill them on Israeli Sovereign land. They must be listened to, their experiences must be recognized by the world. They are the true victims of an ideology and a history of hate against the Jews.

Yet on official levels the lack of governments answering anti Semitism with fact is disgusting. Zionism seems spat at the Jews as if it were a dirty and shameful name. It is not. I am proud of the fact that as a 6th generation West Aussie, I am a proud Zionist and Christian whom is pro Israeli. Zionism- the belief that Jews have a right to return home to Zion ( Jerusalem, Israel, State)

In terms of the amount of hate which the Arab Muslims direct towards the Jews, such irrational hate is without basis or substance, it was Cicero who once said,

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)The absence of reason and sense of the haters of Israel and the Jews is so clearly explained by Cicero I think.

Iran and Saudi Arabia, main funders and agitators of world Islamic Fundamentalist terrorism, and in specific Hezbollah and Hamas are the rich countries, fat from oil revenues, whom instead of funding infrastructure and positive community development instead seek to continue the war against Israel by proxy, they are the rich whom give aid weapons and money to the terrorists to ensure conflict in Israel continues . In reality, it is Iran and Saudi Arabia whom are to blame for the continuing hate against the Jews through the entire middle east by way of mosques clerics and mass media.

"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
Jean-Paul Sartre "

It is the poor in Gaza, not the rich whom get convinced to become self suicide murderers and commit suicide and kill innocent men women and children in Israel. It is not those whom are Christians doing the killing in Gaza , Hamas kill fellow Hamas for any reason, even mere suspicion of being an Israeli informant.In prisons set aside specific to Hamas murderers , they already have a style of well run power base within the prisons and kill anyone they suspect may possibly betray them either in the future or in past.

In reality, the Jews must keep their statehood to have a chance to survive the rabidly rising anti Semitism in the world today. Jews world wide are persecuted, robbed, physically attacked and killed for no other reason that they are Jews.

Israel remains the last place of Hope for all Jews, to deny them the continuation of a Statehood in Israel, or to rob Israel of any more land, is to say that they are not entitled to Statehood which is already in existence. This is not legal for any country to do so.

The Jews within Israel are relatively in a better place, they are proud to be Jewish and proud to live as a Jew, they are not the ones whom like the Jews still in the Diaspora (rest of the world) are too afraid to live a life of being a Jew.

It was Israeli PM who said" Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
Golda Meir "

This is such truth, in Israel it is ok to be a Jew and not fear pogroms sanctioned by state or church in the past for example in Germany, Britain, Russia.

However the enemies of Israel want to see the land further divided up, this tiny piece , this sliver of humanity of Jews, they want to see it carved into a place where it cannot remain a viable state. Israel is not an occupier, it is a Sovereign State.

In the history of Modern Israel, it has not been the Jews which created hate and war. In all the times that Arabs waged attacks upon Israel, it was the neighbouring Arabic Islamic lands which wanted to destroy Israel. In the past, Israel won these wars of self defence because they had no where else to run and hide. Israel is the last stand for the Jews to ensure that The Holocaust never is able to happen again.

Speaking of the attacks on Israel, it was Golda Meir who said,

"The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.
Golda Meir "

Israel must not give any more land away. It must retain its lands and not give into any appeasement of the arabs. There is no one more insightful into the state of affairs in Israel than Dr Daniel Pipes.

I support Israel.

I support 100 per cent Dr Daniel ipes insights and accurate vision of what Israel needs to do.

No other country has any right to cast the blame at Israel for defending its lands, no other country in teh world would tolerate the killing of its citizens on a daily basis from neighbouring enemies.

Israel- Defend your people!.

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